Published 19 April 2023 Photo by Fikri Rasyid on Unsplash As a part of the Graduate School in Asian Studies, the PhD workshop on Indonesia aims to bring together the PhD students and scholars working on Indonesia across various disciplines for a meeting at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies The workshop is designed to facilitate discussion and cooperation among the participants, allo

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Published 2 May 2023 Application deadline: 1 June This course explores ideologies as a ubiquitous phenomenon that shapes political, social, and cultural beliefs and practices. It examines how ideologies are formed, translated, and contested across historical periods and different societies in East and South-East Asia. Specific focus is given to nationalism and communism, including their emergence,

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Published 10 May 2023 Photo by Ana Bórquez on Unsplash Application deadline: 6 October Researchers are increasingly needed in functions outside of academia, such as in think-tanks, government organizations, and international institutions. This requires PhD candidates to acquire the skill of making research accessible through policy reports and presentations to policymakers and other actors. In thi

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Published 16 May 2023 European Association for Chinese Studies Summer School 2023: Situating Global China. 23rd–25th August 2023. Application deadline 16th June. The rapid globalisation of Chinese capital has great implications for political, societal, and economic systems around the world in the 21st century. Chinese investments, patterns of migration, and the integration of Chinese firms into fo

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Published 25 September 2023 The Graduate School held its first annual retreat in Ystad 21-22 September. 13 PhD students from different disciplines and universities attended the retreat as well as 10 senior scholars. At the retreat issues and challenges regarding publications and academic careers were discussed, as well as the PhD students' research and other issues related to contemporary Asian st

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Published 13 October 2023 Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash Application deadline: 13 November During the spring of 2024, two new PhD courses are planned, Asia in the Global Economy and The Craft of Writing and Publishing Peer Reviewed Journal Articles. Please check the links for more information and application forms if you are interested. Application deadline: 13 November. If you are int

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Published 15 December 2023 EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (EUVIP) is coordinated by Palacký University and also includes Lund University, the University of Helsinki and the Catholic University of Louvain. On 17-21 June EUVIP will organise a summer school in Olomouc on the topic Navigating Geostrategic Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: Focus on Southeast Asia and MyanmarFor more information see

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Published 15 January 2024 The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social

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Published 19 January 2024 Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash The course that starts on 26 March and is mainly online apart from a writing retreat on 13-15 May will accept a few more students. If you are interested read the description and submit your application by 20 February.Find out more and apply here 

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Published 27 September 2021 Photographer Magnus Hjalmarsson is digitising Swedish periodicals. With the objective of digitising Swedish printed material from the 1400s to modern times, a collaboration has been established between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. The undertaking lays the basis of a long-term digitisa

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Published 15 August 2022 Läs här om ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar som har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom  

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 21 June 2023 Would you like to learn more about our research on X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism? To read the full article please go to the following link: Exploring the Role of 'Jumping Genes' in X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 7 September 2023 Patricia Gerdes, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in transposable elements and their impact on the human genome, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. To read the full article on Patricia Gerdes' MSCA Fellowship, please go to th

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 November 2023 I en studie ledd från Lunds universitet kan forskarna för första gången visa att traumatiska hjärnskador aktiverar vilande endogena retrovirus som under årmiljonernas gång infogats i människans DNA. Att dessa aktiveras kan vara drivande för att starta en inflammation som förvärrar hjärnskadan.

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 11 December 2023 "Tack vare ny teknik har Storbritannien precis godkänt en behandling som botar två genetiska sjukdomar. Nu ligger vägen öppen för att behandla andra sorters lidande." "– Vi kommer att kunna utveckla botande behandlingar för många ovanliga sjukdomar som inte går att bota i dag, säger Johan Jakob

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 19 January 2024 Today we congratulate Dr. Raquel Garza on defending her thesis! Dr. Raquel Garza's thesis "Transposable Elements in the Healthy and Diseased Human Brain" is available online.For an interview with Dr. Raquel Garza please visit Multipark's website.

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 15 August 2024 Researchers from the Jakobsson Group at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 2 March 2018 Interested in how we work with cutting out bad genes and pasting in new, healthy ones? In this case, you might find the below article on new gene techniques and our research very intersting! På svenska: Är du nyfiken på hur vi arbetar med att klippa ut de dåliga generna och klistra in nya friska ge

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By paulina [dot] pettersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Pettersson) - published 20 August 2018 Läs här om vår senaste publikation som presenterar en direkt länk mellan Huntingtons sjukdom och en grundläggande process som kallas autofagi.       Publikation: Huntingtin Aggregation Impairs Autophagy, Leading to Argonaute-2 Accumulation and Global MicroRNA Dysregulation  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/nya-ron-om-huntingtons-sjukdom-publiceras - 2025-04-17

Published 26 June 2017 Interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? Are you interested in progress on large-scale production of living brain cells? You can find out more in our latest paper REST suppression mediates neural conversion of adult human fibroblasts via microRNA-dependent and -independent pathways.  

https://www.molecular-neurogenetics.lu.se/article/new-paper-large-scale-production-living-brain-cells - 2025-04-17